Senior Product Manager - Cardiff
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
As a Senior Product Manager at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) you’ll champion the delivery and continuous improvement of products and define, own, and solve problems that enable value. You’ll work with researchers to understand user needs; stakeholders and service owners to understand business value; and your whole team to prototype and implement solutions that are viable and sustainable.You’ll own and develop a coordinated product strategy with other teams in Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) and across the wider organisation, understanding the goals of our stakeholders, and work with your team to help validate assumptions, sharing insight and learnings to create better outcomes and demonstrate the benefits of user-centred design.
DBT’s Data Services Portfolio, where this role sits, build digital products and services that enable our global network of staff, partners and members of the public to spot opportunities, monitor progress and make decisions with data. We work closely with users, stakeholders and data professionals to deliver user-centred, data-driven solutions using contemporary tools and techniques, directly supporting the Department’s strategic goals and the economic growth of the UK.
You’ll have the support of Lead Product Managers to help shape your product strategy, and to develop your craft. You will be responsible for managing products through the product lifecycle. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team, as well as coaching more junior product managers.You’ll support writing updates to ministers and senior civil service leadership.
Product Managers at DBT have expert knowledge of product management techniques coupled with developing strategic skills. They provide direction and empowerment to one or more high performing multidisciplinary teams, ensuring return on investment and execution of the vision.Product Managers represent users throughout the delivery process, and advocate for well-governed Agile methodology to the rest of the department.
Main responsibilities
As a Senior Product Manager, you will manage the development of one or more digital services or products. In this role, you will:
- lead one or more multidisciplinary agile teams, providing product direction to deliver digital services and products through the product lifecycle
- understand the policy context and business drivers behind ideas, and develop ways to identify and test the key assumptions to establish problem-solution fit, so that we quickly discover the most appropriate way to deliver user and business value
- create effective, prioritised product roadmaps and product descriptions to meet user needs in a cost-effective way
- deliver services that meet the Government Digital Service (GDS) Standard and are best in class for government, giving the same level of digital experience users expect from daily interaction with the most respected web services
- underpin the delivery and iteration of digital services through a communicable understanding of diverse audience groups and effective analysis and presentation of qualitative and quantitative user data
- develop and manage stakeholder relationships to create buy in for the product
- work with your delivery manager to ensure your team is high performing
You may also line manage product managers and support their professional development.